RFR: 8290025: Remove the Sweeper [v9]

Thu Aug 11 10:43:34 UTC 2022

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:58:43 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> A general question, since we now need full GCs for sweeping the code cache, would a too-tight code cache now hurt more than before? Similar to how a too small metaspace could result in excessive GCs today?

Yes that would hurt more, unless you use loom. If you use loom the sweeper does a full GC to scan stacks in the heap, which is much worse.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9741